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The Rise of Boba Fett - Includes NEW Slave I!

Sandtroopers has pics - talk about an Ultimate Battle Pack! It includes a new Slave I, Mace Windu's Jedi Starfighter, Anakin, Mace, Boba, Bossk, and R8-B7 figures. It's a TRU exclusive, so I imagine the pricing will be ridiculous, but this is too damn cool to care. The Slave I looks to include a rotating cockpit for three (standing) figures, an open middle, and accurate sonic charges, among other things. And it's over 18" long, which is quite a bit larger than the previous versions.

Sandtroopers has pics - talk about an Ultimate Battle Pack! It includes a new Slave I, Mace Windu's Jedi Starfighter, Anakin, Mace, Boba, Bossk, and R8-B7 figures. It's a TRU exclusive, so I imagine the pricing will be ridiculous, but this is too damn cool to care. The Slave I looks to include a rotating cockpit for three (standing) figures, an open middle, and accurate sonic charges, among other things. And it's over 18" long, which is quite a bit larger than the previous versions.

Looks pretty good. I will consider getting this if it is easy enough to order from their website.

Interesting way to go about releasing it, I must say. That's going to be a doozy of an UBP there, and I imagine it won't be the only way Fett and Bossk are released. Wonder if a "smaller" release will be available, too.

I'm going to go ahead and wager this will be a Target exclusive, like the other UBP's in various lines so far. Wonder if it'll go like hotcakes (like the SW UBPs) or wind up on major clearance (like the GIJoe one).

I'm going to go ahead and wager this will be a Target exclusive, like the other UBP's in various lines so far. Wonder if it'll go like hotcakes (like the SW UBPs) or wind up on major clearance (like the GIJoe one).

i'm gonna say JJL is correct that it's TRU, since thats what the sticker says.

Adds up to $115, add on the TRU exlusive jump in price of about %25 = additional $28.75 for a total of $143.75. Round up to a nice dollar amount and take one penny off for Jedi Mind Trick pricing = $149.99.

Sounds about right for a TRU exlusive of this size. Therefore, I probably won't be able to fit it in the budget. What does everyone else think? Too high?

I couldn't care less about the new Jedi starfighters and I have enough Bossks. The Anakin is borderline ridiculous since he's pegwarming like crazy and everyone who could possibly want one has one by now. I was really hoping Slave one would be released as a stand alone ship. If this is the only way it's coming out, I'll be passing. That's a shame too, because I was really looking forward to an upgraded Slave-1.

Then again, as much as the tooling for the new ship is costing them, they couldn't possibly make it back just selling it in over-priced battle packs. Hopefully, it will see an individual release and I shouldn't give up hope yet.

If you look carefully, the box says "Ultimate Battle Packs" which leads me to believe there is more than one. Might the other one be an OT version?

Yakface was reporting a pair of Hoth-themed sets - one with a turret, and one with an AT-ST, each with two figures. This pretty well matches up with what Hasbro has said about a Hoth repaint of the Walmart AT-ST coming, and the clean-shaven Hoth Rebel Trooper variant coming in some kind of special set. No official news yet, though.

Originally Posted by El Chuxter

Interesting way to go about releasing it, I must say. That's going to be a doozy of an UBP there, and I imagine it won't be the only way Fett and Bossk are released. Wonder if a "smaller" release will be available, too.

No on another Boba release:

JediInsider.com: Now that the season 2 finale for the Clone Wars animated series has come and gone, can you tell us if a new Boba Fett figure for Clone Wars will be released soon?
Hasbro: A new Clone Wars Boba Fett figure is in the works. However, it will be available only in a very special pack later this Fall…stay tuned for info that will be released at Celebration V.

Though it's odd, as this one is based on the outfit he wore in Death Trap, which had the least amount of Slave I action. So I wonder if we'll get the Dollars Trilogy poncho version later; I wouldn't doubt it.

Originally Posted by mtriv73

I couldn't care less about the new Jedi starfighters and I have enough Bossks. The Anakin is borderline ridiculous since he's pegwarming like crazy and everyone who could possibly want one has one by now. I was really hoping Slave one would be released as a stand alone ship. If this is the only way it's coming out, I'll be passing. That's a shame too, because I was really looking forward to an upgraded Slave-1.

Then again, as much as the tooling for the new ship is costing them, they couldn't possibly make it back just selling it in over-priced battle packs. Hopefully, it will see an individual release and I shouldn't give up hope yet.

Well, the Bossk is in the animated style, so it's unique among the other Bossk figures. Anakin isn't pegwarming in my area, and this is the space suit version anyway, which has more articulation and is more accurate to the show (though they could do something about that grin, which seems out of place here). I'm not sure on a re-release, but who knows. An OT version sometime down the line is basically a given.

I'm interested in hearing the rest of their plans for the remainder of the year. We already know about several exclusives, though there are fewer than last year (that we know of so far). TRU is getting Kul Teska, Nikto Guard, and this set, in addition to the vintage packaging AT-AT (which can basically be ignored unless you're into packaging variants); Walmart is getting Jabba and Kit's Starfighter; Target has nothing we've seen yet but could end up with a second Geonosis Arena Showdown wave, even though the first seems to be replenishing and languishing everywhere; and Kmart has Jodo Kast. Then, of course, all the non-exclusive stuff. It's a fair amount, but not quite like last year, which had a lot of exclusives spread all throughout the year.

All I want from this set is the Bossk figure and I'm kind of annoyed that I would have to buy two vehicles and four figures I don't even want just to get him. Ah, well, I guess I can pick Bossk up on Ebay or wait a year or so for Hasbro to release him single carded.

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